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Sky vs Bebop - What's the difference?

sky | bebop |

As an acronym sky

is s'uomen '''k'''ielitieteellinen ' y hdistys: linguistic association of finland.

As a noun bebop is

(music) an early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

As a verb bebop is

to participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre.

sky

English

Alternative forms

* skie (obsolete)

Noun

(skies)
  • (lb) A cloud.
  • The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
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  • The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.
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  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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  • *:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky .
  • Heaven.
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    • Usage notes

    Usually the word can be used correctly in either the singular or plural form, but the plural is now mainly poetic.

    Synonyms

    * firmament * heaven *

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * skylark * the sky's the limit * reach for the sky

    Verb

  • (sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 22 , author=Ian Hughes , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Van Persie skied a penalty, conceded by Gary Caldwell who was sent off, and also hit the post before scoring his third with a shot at the near post.}}
  • (colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
  • * The Century
    • Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.
  • (colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container

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    bebop

    English

    (wikipedia bebop)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (music) An early form of modern jazz played by small groups and featuring driving rhythms and complex, often dissonant harmonies.

    • Verb

  • To participate in bebop jazz, such as by dancing in a way associated with the genre
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=September 2, author=Bill Wyman, title=Terms of interment: retrospecting the Ramones and the Clash, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Six months into their career, the Clash already showed themselves the equal of any rock band that had come before them, simply by assaulting the last frontier of rock mythology: the notion that the rock audience, like some sort of bebopping proletariat, was a receptacle of goodness and hope, and that rock 'n' roll offered redemption. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 26, author=Brooks Barnes, title=Laugh Lines in the Hollywood Strike, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“The studios think we are having a horrible time out here,” said Richard Potter, a screenwriter who made “Strike Dancing,” a YouTube video showing pickets bebopping in formation to “Play That Funky Music.” }}

    Derived terms

    * bebopper ----